Injury-plagued Dance admits he expected to leave Luton

Bedevilled Luton midfielder James Dance admitted he had expected to part ways with the Hatters this summer after spending most of his two-year spell with the club on the sidelines, writes Mark Wood.
James DanceJames Dance
James Dance

The 26-year-old endured a miserable time with injury, fracturing a cheekbone before he suffered an injury that placed pressure on his navicular bone and he needed to have a screw inserted to alleviate it.

That injury sidelined Dance for almost a year as he made just 32 appearances, scoring four goals. On being let go, he said: “It wasn’t a surprise. Being injured for the last three managers would have been pushing it a bit.”

Dance endeared himself to Luton fans by racing back from his fractured cheekbone and donning a protective mask to play.

He said: “I missed a few games with fracturing my cheek.

“That was November time and then it was the middle of January I stopped playing through my ankle. The first six months I was personally quite happy with how I played, but since the middle of that first January it spiralled out of control from there.”

Dance never got a chance to play under new boss John Still as he spent two loan spells at Nuneaton Town, but was positive about his discussions with the Hatters manager, adding: “He has been really good to me the few conversations we’ve had.”

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